投稿の詳細: 雨の中の出荷総会　Shipping meeting of Kyoho on a rainy day.

今日も午後から雨になった。
今年は雨が多い。
農協の巨峰出荷総会が
今日雨の中行われた。
どういう訳か今年は
だるまの目入れ式が
行われた。思わず、
今年は神頼みかと
思ってしまった。

今年の出荷は8月31日になっているが
去年の初日に比べて色つきが今一で
まだ出せないという農家が多い。
去年は初日大量に出荷されたが、
今年はそういうわけにはいかなそうだ。

7月中旬からの高温と8月中旬
からの多雨で、色づきが
よくないのだ。また、雨のせいで
食味も落ちている。
朝夕の気温が下がってきたのは良いのだが、
まだ8月。秋らしくなるには早すぎる。

私のところではもう少し
後になってから採ろうと思う。

It was rainy again in the afternoon.
We have more rain this year than we did last year.
A shipping meeting was held for JA members.
Somehow we had Daruma ceremony this year whereby
we paint single eye on the Daruma doll for praying
good and lucrative harvest this year. We did not
have such a ceremony until last year. Maybe we
have to pray and depend on Gods this year.

First shipping date was set on August 31 this year.
However, many growers say they cannot ship their grapes
because of the insufficient color on the grapes.
The situation was very much different from that of last
year when there were so many cases on the fist day.

Because of the high temperature since mid July
and much rain since mid August, the grapes have not
accumulated enough colour. The taste tends to be
deteriorated by continuing rain. We have lower
temperature in the evening and in the morning which
is good but we are still in August and the autumn is
too early to come yet.

I have decided to harvest Kyoho grapes for gift
on later date.